That’s O-Hi-O.

I was out all yesterday working at the local campaign HQ for Obama. I did learn how to make peace cranes, but my day was otherwise fairly pointless. Bah.

Laura Heidy has an interesting post up, with the BEST analogy for comparing free verse and forms I’ve ever heard.

And then she says nice things about one of my poems, which means that I have to like it!

Do read Lo’s contribution to Umbrella, too. It’s stunning.

An established mag has started taking online subs. Great!

They charge $2 for the privilege.

Um.

Huh?

From Best Poem‘s guidelines:

Best Poem seeks to publish, not necessarily every day, a poet’s best poem…. Poem should be fifty lines or fewer…. No simultaneous submissions, no previously published poems.

Bolding mine.

Riiiight. I’d imagine that what most people consider their “best poem” has been published. In my case, it’s been published three times.

Actually, the whole paragraph struck me as snotty.